Threesdays: I'm Just Not That Into You

* Amy Winehouse: her whereabouts, her in-and-out relationship with rehab, her crazy husband who is currently incarcerated, her signature beehive, her insistence on wearing ballet slippers everywhere...and her music. Yeah, I don't get it. I didn't drink the Kool-Aid. It's just not that great to me.

* The Hills: Lauren and Heidi and Audrina and...I don't even know anymore. Everyone's all aflutter over whether or it's real or fake, and I just can't watch a show featuring a guy who's last name is "Pratt." I mean, I get that it's entertainment, and if you dig it, so be it. But me? So disinterested.

* Ashley Dupre: I really don't care about the high-class hooker that got Elliot Spitzer booted from the NY Gov's office. I don't care how much Larry Flynt offered her to pose for Penthouse. Or that she was spotted on Girls Gone Wild as an 18-year-old. I don't care where she lives or what her sad, sad story is. I don't want to be her friend on MySpace. And I'm not sorry.

Threesdays: Radio Here

* "This NPR program is brought to you by Widespread Panic..."


* "The Paul Young Fan Club will be meeting on Saturday at the Applebee's across from Gwinnett Place Mall..."


* DJ: "I can't believe you sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot in your boxers."

Caller: "I didn't know it was her. I thought I was texting my girlfriend."

DJ: "And what did her mother do when she pulled up next to you?"

Threesdays: Musical Mortification

Three songs I'm a little (or a lot) embarrassed that I like...

"Let's See How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty

"When Did Your Heart Go Missing" by Rooney

and...

total and complete humiliation...

"Rockstar" by Nickelback

Threesdays (Plus One): Albums for Spring

1. Our Lady Peace, Spiritual Machines
Standout Spring Track: "The Wonderful Future"

2. Pete Droge, Necktie Second
Standout Spring Track: "Northern Bound Train"

3. Moby, Play
Standout Spring Track: "Porcelain"

Plus One. David Gray, Lost Songs
Standout Spring Track: "Tidal Wave"

Threesdays: Wilmywood

Three things I didn't know I loved so much until I moved to Wilmywood:

1) Spanish Moss

2) Sushi

3) Counting the chimes from the courthouse clocktower at midnight

Threesdays: Stop Talking

As we all know from Schoolhouse Rocks, three is the magic number. So on Thursdays, I've decided to start sharing three of something. Three thoughts, three likes, three songs I can't get out of my head. I posted a few weeks ago about the words that seem to be floating around the office. And now there are three things I keep hearing myself say that have started to make me want to twitch a little bit every time they come out of my mouth. Let's jump right in, shall we?

1) "Just FYI" - Used to preface a statement I mean to be an ironic announcement. As in, "Just FYI, I will be developing a new protocol for developing protocol." Generally used to mock concepts I find to be blatantly ridiculous.

2) "Hysterical" - Everything I find amusing these days is beyond just funny. It's hysterical. Annoyance comes in not so much in usage as in pronunciation. The way I'm sitting on the "hys" syllable so it comes out sounding like "It's hissssterical." I'm pretty sure I picked this up from my boss.

3) "There is that" - Used in an attempt to get the last word after someone makes a joke that I can't best. When I can't out-joke the joke, I try to use someone else's wit for my own devices. It's like affirming someone's cleverness but secretly declaring my own cleverness. "Yes, you're witty. But I recognized it." There is that.